Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music /
In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states-desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Summary: | In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states-desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. While she analyzes the social and historical reasons for the high value placed on expressive intensity in both secular and sacred music, and she also links desire and pleasure to the many technical innovations of the ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520952065 0520952065 |